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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The ground-ivy, Glecoma hederacea.
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But I'll tell you; you must know, 'tis fatal [39] to me to be a scoundrel and a prince the same day: for, being to see him at four, I could not engage myself to dine at any friend's; so I went to Tooke, [40] to give him a ballad, and dine with him; but he was not at home: so I was forced to go to a blind [41] chop-house, and dine for tenpence upon gill-ale, [42] bad broth, and three chops of mutton; and then go reeking from thence to the First Minister of State.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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But I'll tell you; you must know, 'tis fatal [39] to me to be a scoundrel and a prince the same day: for, being to see him at four, I could not engage myself to dine at any friend's; so I went to Tooke, [40] to give him a ballad, and dine with him; but he was not at home: so I was forced to go to a blind [41] chop-house, and dine for tenpence upon gill-ale, [42] bad broth, and three chops of mutton; and then go reeking from thence to the First Minister of State.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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